New
Hope For COPD and Pulmonary Fibrosis.
By: William Wong ND, PhD, Member World
Sports Medicine Hall of Fame

Likely one of the worst feelings one can
have is the inability to breathe in
fully. The feeling of lack of a full
breath, of not being able to pull in
enough air, of only being able to pull
the air down to “here”,
seems like a form of strangulation.
As a childhood asthmatic I’m
familiar with the feeling. Having had
the bouts of bronchitis and pneumonia
I’ve experienced in my life I
can relate somewhat to the many COPD
patients I’ve helped to rehab.

What
causes breathing disorders of COPD
and Pulmonary Fibrosis? These conditions
can stem from many things: inhaled
irritants such as textile lint, rock
and coal dust, asbestos, chemical fumes,
smoke (cigarette and otherwise). Sometimes
these ills form for no plausible reason
at all. In such cases, where a recognized
root cause for the condition has not
been found, the word idiopathic is
used as part of the diagnosis.

What
is happening in COPD and PF? In these
conditions we see a chronic inflammation
in the tissues of the lungs. This inflammation
can be sparked by the constant irritation
of inhaled substances that either can’t
get out of the lungs once they are in
(such as lint and rock dust) or from
the caustic burning of chemical and smoke
exposure. In idiopathic PF, we’ve
usually no idea why the inflammation
is there. Now, this long term low to
mid level inflammation creates a monster
of its own - scar tissue. The lungs inside
are very delicate and scar over really
easily. The inflammation of bronchitis
and asthma can scar the lungs even though
their inflammation is measured in days
not the months or years of inflammation
as with COPD and PF patients.

The lungs
contain little sacs called alveoli. These
sacs are very elastic and they are the
structures responsible for transferring
oxygen from the air into the blood. The
opening to these sacs are relatively
small as the opening to a balloon is
small compared to the balloon itself.
When scar tissue builds in the lungs
this spider web of human silk not only
keeps the lungs from fully expanding,
restricting them from the inside, the
fibrosis also builds up over the openings
to the alveoli keeping air from being
able to get into them and in turn from
getting into the blood. The result is
the inability to take in a full breath
of air and lowered blood levels of oxygen.
Oxygen levels in the blood ideally should
be at 95% saturation rate or better.
From 90 to 95 is ok but not great. Most
healthy folks would faint if their blood
saturation went below 89%! Many COPD
and PF patients live with saturation
rates in the 80’s and as you can
imagine at that level of oxygenation
brain function is not at its optimum
and just doing the activities of daily
living can be a chore equal to running
a marathon.

What
treatments hare standard for COPD and
PF patients? Cortico steroid anti inflammatory
drugs. Anyone familiar with the dreadful
side effects of prednisone and the cortisone
family of drugs doesn’t need a
lecture from me as to how bad they are
to use long term. For those of you not
familiar with the side effects of the
cortico steroid drugs look them up on
the internet or better yet, speak to
someone who’s been on them for
a while.

The Non
Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID’s)
cannot be used with COPD or PF patients
as they would be toxic for long term
use at the level of dosing needed to
bring down lung inflammation. Also, it’s
been shown through he deaths of thousands
of patients using the newer COX 2 drugs,
that these medications can actually create
inflammation in the heart, lungs and
internal organs! A pharmacological Oxymoron!

It is
through the medium of the cortico steroids
that medicine tries to bring down the
inflammation and by so doing tries to
reduce the rate at which the lungs fill
with fibrosis. Most everywhere except
for Germany, Japan and Central Europe
medicine has not heard of systemic enzymes
and don’t use them widely. So in
most of the countries of the world there
is nothing available to eat (lyse) away
at the fibrosis growing within the lungs
of COPD and PF patients. Most docs will
tell you there is nothing that can be
done to get rid of the scar tissue of
these conditions or to get rid of scar
tissue / fibrosis in general. The use
of systemic enzymes with these or any
patients is completely safe as they have
no toxicity what so ever (No LD-50) and
can be taken along side any medication
except for coumadin, warfarin or heparin.

My first
exposure with the application of systemic
enzymes against PF came from the work
of the pulmonologist the late Dr. White
of Winston Salem North Carolina. He used
systemic enzymes to control the chronic
inflammation of a PF patient of his and
was amazed to find the patient had greatly
increased his Pulmonary Capacity and
oxygen saturation in just 7 days!

In the
ensuing years since Dr. Whites work,
I’ve spoken to a number of COPD
and PF patients who have tried highly
fibrinolytic systemic enzymes either
on the recommendation of a health care
professional or on their own. So far
there hasn't been a single one of those
patients who did not benefit from taking
the enzymes. Increased Vital Capacity
(total volume of air drawn into the lungs),
increased blood oxygen saturation, thinner
lung mucous which is easier to bring
up and be rid of. Their stories are so
consistent that I’ve proposed a
study to finally put the imprimatur of “science” on
the clinical results we’ve been
seeing.

For those
COPD and PF patients reading this, don’t
wait for the studies to be published.
You might not have that long... Get on
the systemic enzymes, and in 1 months
time go get your lungs retested. Your
doc will be very surprised, you’ll
already have figured it out and be running
rings around the old you!

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